What AIs are good for...
AIs good at helping humans do what they intend << AIs that are good at manipulating humans to do what someone else wants this is more a tweet than a blog post, but I'm not tweeting now...
here is a panel i was on
saving it here for reference, will frame it more later. these were really cool lawyers who work on human rights and freedom of expression and also they are hopeful for decentralized tech solutions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YsnGkFG7o8
Soul is Rational: Why we need SBTs
also published on mirror.xyz - but I think I'll keep a copy here all the same. some of the thoughts evolved from the previous "minddump" draft... The dismal science, also known as Economics, describes behavior as "rational" if maximizes personal satisfaction. Markets are
Thinking in the Open
You write notes down first, then write them up. So, this is writing down, threading out thoughts to sift through later. Joy in work comes from meaning, and teammates - and most when colleagues share the meaning and core values, enough of the deep context, and share a level of
ideas, essays and frameworks
Sending these to a contact, made me want to pin them here as well: A draft of an essay calling for more frameworks for stateless individuals: Citizen or Hostage Started a framework for grassroots policy formation - Open Public Policy RFCs and wrote about it on medium - Taking Public
Mr Rosewater
If oxidative damage causes aging then we all burn up in the end, Mr Vonnegut One cannot have subtlety without context. re The volunteer firement trying to prevent their loved ones from combining with oxygen, in God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
the selfish-ness gene
suppose there were a gene that made the bearer feel entitled to other people's things. would it spread? And before pointing fingers, remember...the bearer would not think of them as other people's, or that they were taking anything by their actions.
a scientific definition of logic
logic exists (and a given problem is logical) if you can put 100 people in separate rooms with the problem and they converge on the same answer a logical problem is interesting if they converge over time, but generally do not agree given a very brief time
From the Evolution Desk...
male: "I'm going to have a million kids or die trying" female: "how do I make sure all my children survive and also everyone else I'm related to?" Unfortunately part of the female strategy is to try to get the "successful&
Theoretical Certainty: a story
When doing a startup, you talk about it everywhere, with everyone. At least I do. I went hiking today on a familiar trail; but the monsoons had changed things and I found myself going up and down the canyon looking for the turnoff. A couple sitting on a rock seemed